EDT, this worried me!

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While at the your horse live yesterday ,my daughter saw a stand that was advertising training to be an EDT.
She went to enquire, the course was £2500 and was for 6 days and then you were given the tools and you could get insurance and go and do the job. You then had to go back later and do 6 more days and that was that.
Please correct me if that info is wrong.
They said this course is the last they are doing in the uk they are going to Germany after that.

I had thought that EDT were well trained and worked under supervision for quite awhile ,am I naive or are some thoroughly trained and some , well ,what can I say, just practicing on our horses!
 
I'm shocked, so await replies with great interest.
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Shocked Cathy. I have been with my EDT for 12 years and wouldnt change, but it just shows you how anyone with no experience could be let loose with your horses teeth.
 
I could be - and probably am - wrong here, but I understood that States Qualified EDT's cannot be listed on the UK EDT registered list, so how do UK registered EDT's get registered? Just by doing the above??
 
I've known about this for sometime. another way to become anEDT is to go on a short training course in the USA.
I only ever get a vet to look at and , if neccessary, rasp my horses teeth. have spoken to them about it and i know a few vets who dont like EDTs.
it is my belief they , the EDTs do a lot of unnecessary work.
I've been a horse owner for nearly 50 years and until rcently we all got along just fine withut any EDTs.
I shudder to think thta is 10 to 20 yrs time horses will be beingPTS because they have no teeth due to over enthusiastic dental interevention.
 
hartpury college do a THREE YEAR degree in equine dentistry and the students then still have to take the practical exam, hell of a lot more to be learnt than u can teach in 6 days!!!
 
I done an assignment on this for a course I was on, currently ANYONE can pick up a set of rasps and call themselves an EDT.
It is scary the amount of short courses you can go on and get training to be an EDT.
My current EDT was an apprentice and trained that way, and done her BEVA exams too.
I don't trust vets I've seen their one days training and it is so basic, doing teeth is actually very complex, and very often they fail to notice things and don't do enough work as they just don't have the expertise.
 
My thought exactly - I always use an EDT rather than a vet, after all would you go to the doctors to have your teeth fixed?
I also know some people who have done the courses with Shires Dental College and in general they seem to have a pretty good knowledge of the BASICS i.e. they could do a basic float but they certainly wouldn't be up to major corrective work. Personally I think that they should have a 'apprenticeship' period where they have to work under the guidance of a BEVA EDT before being 'signed off'.
 
Agree with you Bosworth. EDTs do the job day in day out and are (supposedly) expert in their field. My EDT has to put right the awful jobs that some vets do on teeth. If a horses teeth dont need doing, he will tell me.
 
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Actually I would never let a vet do my horses teeth and no vet should do them - UNLESS they have trained specifically to do teeth as they really do only have 1 days training to do teeth.

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I could not agree more!! We had a the vet do 2 horses teeth here at work the other day - he didn't even use a gag!!! I've pulled aside the one mares tongue and had a good look myself (I'm no EDT, but ALWAYS pester the hell out of my EDT
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) and there are still hooks and sharp edges on her molars!!
 
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